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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Blazegraph vs. SwayDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

wiki.blazegraph.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Altibase

Blazegraph

Simer Plaha

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1999

2006

2018

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.1.5, March 2019

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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